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ABC News Transcript
July 3, 2008 Thursday
SHOW: GOOD MORNING AMERICA 8:41 AM EST
THE BEST JULY 4TH EVER; MOSQUITOES
ANCHORS: DIANE SAWYER, DAVID MUIR
REPORTERS: DAVID MUIR (NEW YORK, NY USA)
LENGTH: 1331 words
CONTENT: DOCTOR DOWNIE, BUG GUARD, SUN BLOCK, AND CITRONELLA GRAPHICS: GMA'S BEST JULY 4TH EVER DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) The best Fourth of July ever and the worst part about it are the mosquitoes. So this morning how do you deal with those pesky mosquitoes, and keep them from ruining your picnic? How do you avoid them? Dermatologist Dr. Jeanine Downie is here with the answers to the questions. And one of the perplexing questions is; why do some people get bitten more than others? We were joking with Diane, they go after her, and I'm not surprised about that. But, yeah, I'll go out and I end up with 15 bites and the people with me are fine. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) Well, they go after me too and I hate them. What happens is you are a more efficient processor of cholesterol, so the cholesterol deposits are left on your skin and so the mosquitoes snack on the cholesterol deposits on your skin. It doesn't mean your cholesterol is high and low, it's just that you're, myself, you and Diane are all efficient processors of cholesterol. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Efficient. You hear that Diane, we're efficient, efficient. All right, Chris Cuomo started his vacation a little early for the holiday but he swears by the peppermint, the natural answer to mosquitoes. You have a smile on your face. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) That's interesting. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Does it work though? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) No, not really. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It doesn't really work. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) I mean for some people that aren't really bitten by mosquitoes they feel like it works but it doesn't do a whole lot quite frankly. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) He already probably put that on Mario this morning, so if he's watching out there, peppermint does not work. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) But, it's not marketed for that, yeah, it doesn't work that well, not at all. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) What about the sprays and everything else here, what does? GRAPHICS: EFFECTIVE BUG REPELLENTS GRAPHICS: OFF! DEEP WOODS DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) I Like Deep Woods Off. I think it's a great product, I think it's effective. It works really well. I recommend it for people 12 years and older. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Okay, and below here. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) For the under 12 set I like the Avon Skin So Soft, I like the Burt's Bees. They have more natural ingredients in there, citronella, that type of thing, they act as great bug repellants. The citronella candle if you're sitting out on the deck, you can light them and they might help repel some mosquitoes. And then this Don't Bite Me has vitamin B1, so that's thiamin in it, and that gets absorbed through your system so bugs appear to stay away a little bit more. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) So, the candles actually work? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) Yeah, the candles do work. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) And the deet in the spray doesn't concern you? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) It doesn't concern me for people 12 and over because they really love me and, you know, it's a problem. (sic) DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) What are the dangers or are there any dangers in mixing sunscreen and spray? GRAPHICS: DON'T MIX SUN BLOCK AND BUG SPRAY DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) There are significant dangers. People don't realize, during the day I say wear the broad-spectrum sun block like the Neutrogena with the SPF of 30 or above I always say. If you mix it with sun block, I mean the bug spray with the sun block; you'll decrease the efficacy of the sun block by like 50%. So, sun block during the day, the bug stuff when the bugs start coming out in the evening. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And will the bugs be turned away by sunscreen itself? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) No, not at all. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Okay, so you just have to deal with it during the day you're saying. Okay, this is what you do when you're bitten all over the body. GRAPHICS: BUG BITE REMEDIES THAT WORK GRAPHICS: ICE GRAPHICS: TOPICAL BENADRYL DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) When you're bitten up. So let's start with the ice. Okay, ice is great. It's homeopathic. You put it on the bug bite. You can't scratch underneath, you should cut your nails, they should be clipped 'cause if you don't have weapons, you won't go to war. You know how it is. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) It actually reduces the swelling right? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) It does reduce the swelling and it reduces the histamines, it reduces the redness. The Benadryl's great, the Cortaid, you can grab from over the counter. If you have really bag bug bites, using this, the Rodesso, you just spray a little right on the area, this is a prescription Desonate, this is also great. You put it right on the area, it helps to decrease the itch so you don't feel like digging at your skin so much. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) I see you've got the Cetaphil here, which I use just as a cleanser, but how does it work with this? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) You know, it works really well as a moisturizer before you go to bed at night when you're bitten up with whatever it happens to be type of bites, you put this on, you moisturize all over and then you take either the Benadryl or the Zyrtec, and it helps to decrease your urge to itch, so it's just great. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And also helps to reduce the swelling in addition to the ice. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) Right, right. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Let's do some myth busting, in addition to Chris' peppermint over here, some other things that people like to use... DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) Right. So I want... DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) I actually think about the Scope and the Listerine. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) ...right, right, I just want to say these are not marketed as bug guard. Listerine is like one of my favorite mouthwashes so I think it works great. So, this things are not marketed as bug guard, that being said, the old wives tale, if you mix Listerine with water, that you'll repel mosquitoes. That is not true. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) People rub it on their body? GRAPHICS: BUG REPELLENTS THAT DON'T WORK GRAPHICS: MOUTHWASH ON YOUR SKIN GRAPHICS: CHANGE IN YOUR DIET DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) You'll irritate your skin. That doesn't make sense, you know. Using Bounce, sticking it in your pocket, that's another way that you're supposed to repel mosquitoes. That doesn't work. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) I've never heard of the bananas. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) The bananas, what people say is that if you eat bananas, chocolate, Frosted Flakes, sugary things that they make you a more sugary person, and mosquitoes like you more. I just got finished explaining it's an efficient processing of cholesterol. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) Cholesterol. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) So, it's not the sugar, so you can eat your bananas and eat your chocolate. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) No excuses to eat all the chocolate, right? DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) That's right. And then from a marine that we were looking at on the web, he said if that if you bite the sulfur tip off the matches every four to six hours, the sulfur goes throughout your bloodstream and this is something that helps repel mosquitoes. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) And if you eat nails for breakfast too, right? All right, Dr. Jeanie Downie this is all very helpful, myth busting and what works, so we appreciate it (inaudible) Fourth of July. DOCTOR JEANINE DOWNIE (DERMATOLOGIST) Absolutely, thanks for having me. DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS) (Off-camera) You can find the tips on our website, ABCNEWS.com and coming up next here we're celebrating the red, white and blue, but by doing it the green way, coming up. COMMERCIAL BREAK
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